In the competitive field of trading card games, few stick around long enough to make any sort of lasting impression, especially those that spawned from existing entertainment franchises
: Look at the top four cards of your library
Some of it is sorted out by set, and some of the cards are upside down or backwards
It seems like most new white cards that come out are automatically compared to Smothering Tithe, which does a disservice to many of the awesome cards that weve seen over the past few years
Secondly, replacement effects are extremely volatile in their own right, particularly when they replace something as open-ended and common as drawing a card. Im sure nobody at WotC thought through the future implications of Cathartic Reunion, discard Grave-Troll, dredge 18 during Ravnica design, and its not realistic to expect them to